US gun control: Joe Biden holds task force meeting

US Vice President Joe Biden meets victims' groups and gun-safety organisations
to discuss gun control in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School
shooting.

7:32PM GMT 09 Jan 2013

Speaking at a meeting at the White House, Mr Biden saidPresident Obama was "determined to take action" on gun violence.

The vice president said he could not think of anything, in all his years in politics, which had touched the hearts of the American people as profoundly as last month's shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Proposals on gun safety will be sent to Congress later this month and President Obama hopes to announce his administration's next steps on the issue shortly after he is sworn in for a second term on January 21.

Joe Biden will meet members of the National Rifle Association on Thursday.